Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Historical FunderChicago, Illinois · EIN 36-2356089 · Private foundation · Website
Grants paid (2024)$987K
Organizations funded105
Typical grant$10,000
Total assets$48M
Half of its grants to organizations were between $7,500 and $10,000.
From the return
How to apply
The foundation filed the following application information (Form 990-PF Part XV, tax year 2024):
| Contact | SARAH HERDA GRAHAM FOUNDATION |
|---|---|
| Address | 4 WEST BURTON, CHICAGO IL 606101416 |
| Phone | 3127874071 |
| Form and materials | SEE ATTACHED STATEMENT |
| Deadlines | SEE ATTACHED STATEMENT |
| Restrictions | SEE ATTACHED STATEMENT |
Copied as filed. Deadlines on a tax return describe the foundation's usual process; they are not confirmation of a current open cycle.
What it funds
Share of grant lines on the latest return, classified from the purpose each grant states.
Where it gives
23% of grants went outside Illinois.
Grants paid in tax year 2024
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Architecture Biennial | Chicago, IL | This is a Rehearsal | $75,000 |
| Ying Lu Lucy Wang | Chicago, IL | Contagious Places, Curative Spaces | $25,000 |
| Ariele Dionne-Krosnick | Chicago, IL | Swimming Pools, Civil Rights, and the American City in the 1960s | $20,000 |
| Caroline Spooner | Chicago, IL | Dead Time | $20,000 |
| The Jewish Museum | New York, NY | Kiesler's Vision Machines | $20,000 |
| A Project 83 Inc | New York, NY | a83 Exhibition Program & Architectural Image-Making in 1980s New York | $15,000 |
| Carnegie Museum of Art | Pittsburgh, PA | Tatiana Bilbao: City of Rooms | $15,000 |
| Germane Barnes | Chicago, IL | Columnar Disorder | $15,000 |
| Prospect New Orleans (US Biennials Inc) | New Orleans, LA | Prospect.6 | $15,000 |
| Temitayo Ogunbiyi | Chicago, IL | You will wonder if we would have been friends | $15,000 |
| Tom Carruthers & Jennifer Newsom | Chicago, IL | Pyramidion | $15,000 |
| Lydia Kallipoliti & Areti Markopoulou | Chicago, IL | EDIBLE; Or, The Architecture of Metabolism | $12,500 |
| The Center for Independent Documentary | Chicago, IL | Artificial Horizon | $12,500 |
| Aaron Cayer | Chicago, IL | Incorporating Architects | $10,000 |
| Anezka Minanikova | Chicago, IL | Clara Istlerova, A Life Among Letters | $10,000 |
| Architectural Association | Chicago, IL | Ripple Ripple Rippling | $10,000 |
| Architectural Association School of Architecture | London, UK | Entangled Archive | $10,000 |
| Ari Seligmann | Chicago, IL | The Photographic Construction of Japanese Architecture | $10,000 |
| Arthur J Clement & Emily Makas | Chicago, IL | Philip G. Freelon: An Architect of Relationships and Stories | $10,000 |
| Assaf Evron | Chicago, IL | Collage for the Edith Farnsworth House | $10,000 |
| Association of Architecture Organizations | Chicago, IL | AAO Design Matters Conference 2024 | $10,000 |
| Carmen Amengual | Chicago, IL | A Non-Coincidental Mirror | $10,000 |
| Chimurenga | Cape Town, SF | African Mobilities | $10,000 |
| City College of New York | New York, NY | ARCH at Sixty | $10,000 |
| Colloqate Design | Philadelphia, PA | Challenging Patterns of Supremacy | $10,000 |
| Craft Contemporary | Los Angeles, CA | Material Acts | $10,000 |
| Craig L Wilkins | Chicago, IL | if history were told as stories it'd never be forgotten... | $10,000 |
| Dahlia Nduom | Chicago, IL | Tourism, Tropicalization and the Architectural Image | $10,000 |
| Dia Art Foundation | New York, NY | Cameron Rowland: Properties | $10,000 |
| Dongola | Beirut, LE | Provoking the Territory: Bernard Khoury | $10,000 |
| Elizabeth Glvez & Jos Ibarra | Chicago, IL | Latinx Coalition Chats | $10,000 |
| Eva Diaz | Chicago, IL | After Spaceship Earth | $10,000 |
| Every Ocean Hughes (Emily Roysdon) | Chicago, IL | Every Ocean Hughes: Alive Side | $10,000 |
| Fred Schmidt-Arnales | Chicago, IL | It Is a Good Project and Should be Built | $10,000 |
| Geoffrey Bawa Trust | Colombo, CE | On Gardens: Contemplating the Relative in Space, Time, and Life | $10,000 |
| Hunter College Foundation | New York, NY | Andrea Blum: BIOTA | $10,000 |
| i Press Incorporated | Cambridge, MA | Revisiting i Press: the i Press series on the human environment by architect/publisher Mary Otis Stevens | $10,000 |
| Ines Weizman | Chicago, IL | Josephine Baker and the Colonial Modern | $10,000 |
| INSITE (Installation Gallery) | San Diego, CA | INSITE Journal_07 | $10,000 |
| Jeremy Lybarger | Chicago, IL | Midnight Tremor | $10,000 |
| Juana Salcedo | Chicago, IL | Jaguar Lens | $10,000 |
| Julia Phillips | Chicago, IL | Pentasomnia | $10,000 |
| Lampo | Chicago, IL | Lampo 2023-24 and 2024-25 Concert Series | $10,000 |
| LIGA-Space for Architecture | Mexico City, MX | The missing architect | $10,000 |
| Lobna Sana | Chicago, IL | Recognized | $10,000 |
| Lori Brown & Karen Burns | Chicago, IL | Women Architects and Global Solidarity Across the Cold War Divide | $10,000 |
| Mariam Ghani | Chicago, IL | An Incident | $10,000 |
| Menna Agha & Sara Salem | Chicago, IL | Disembodied Territories | $10,000 |
| Molly Brandt & Kevin Weil | Chicago, IL | Inventory of a Building's Reuse and a Landscape's Redesign | $10,000 |
| Neil Levine | Chicago, IL | Architecture for Reading in Public | $10,000 |
| Philip Denny James Wines & Suzan Wines | Chicago, IL | What Else Could It Mean? | $10,000 |
| Sara Zewde | Chicago, IL | Finding Frederick Law Olmsted in Cotton's Kingdom | $10,000 |
| Simon Boudvin | Chicago, IL | Commune, Communism, Commons | $10,000 |
| Smithsonian Institution-Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum | New York, NY | Making Home-Smithsonian Design Triennial | $10,000 |
| Soberscove Press | Chicago, IL | In the Horizontal Plane | $10,000 |
| Storefront for Art and Architecture | New York, NY | Swamplands | $10,000 |
| Suzanne Lettieri & Anya Sirota | Chicago, IL | Junior Architects | $10,000 |
| Swiss Institute | New York, NY | Energies | $10,000 |
| Syracuse University | Chicago, IL | Here There Be Dragons, Season Four: Odes[s]a | $10,000 |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, NY | Materialized Space | $10,000 |
Showing the 60 largest of 105 grants to organizations.
Grants approved for future payment
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIGA-Space for Architecture | Mexico City, | LIGA Exhibition Program, 2025 | $15,000 |
| University of the Witwatersrand | Johannesburg, | ellipses [spatial praxis] | $15,000 |
| Mark Bennett Geronimo Inutiq & Rafico Ruiz | Chicago, IL | Ikiaqqijjut [Travelling through Layers] | $12,000 |
| A83 | New York, NY | Citygroup Exhibition and Debate Program, 2025 | $10,000 |
| Angelika Stepken | Chicago, IL | Life after Architecture | $10,000 |
| Architectural League of New York | New York, NY | Living Legend: Cross Bronx | $10,000 |
| Borderless Studio | Chicago, IL | Beyond Closure | $10,000 |
| Boulouki | Athens, | Under the Landscape | $10,000 |
| Brazilian Institute of Architects | Braslia, | Terra | $10,000 |
| Caitlin Blanchfield Nina Kolowratnik & Ophelia Rivas | Chicago, IL | Significant Impact | $10,000 |
| Canadian Centre for Architecture | Montreal, | Groundwork | $10,000 |
| di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art | Napa, CA | Towards an Archaeology of the Future | $10,000 |
| Opendox | Los Angeles, CA | Deem Journal, Issue 6 | $10,000 |
| Princeton University | Chicago, IL | Sick Architecture | $10,000 |
| Princeton University Press | Chicago, IL | Designing the American Century | $10,000 |
| Syracuse University-School of Architecture | Syracuse, NY | Ethical Narratives | $10,000 |
| The Center for Architecture | New York, NY | Fantasizing Design | $10,000 |
| The World Around | New York, NY | The World Around Summit 2025 | $10,000 |
| Pedro Aparicio-Llorente | Chicago, IL | Payao | $7,500 |
| Amber Nicole Wiley | Chicago, IL | Model Schools in the Model City | $7,000 |
| Alice Buoli Popi Iacovou & Socrates Stratis | Chicago, IL | Everyday Commoning | $6,000 |
| Innovando la Tradicin AC | Centro, | LEOPOLDO. Living Treasures Series | $5,000 |
| Rice University-School of Architecture | Houston, TX | Plat 14 | $5,000 |
| University of CA Los Angeles-Department of Architecture and Urban Design | Los Angeles, CA | POOL, Issue No. 10 | $5,000 |
| Rodolfo Argote | Chicago, IL | Rethinking Architecture Education in Latin America | $1,500 |
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Grant lines |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $986,924 | 130 |
| 2023 | $979,625 | 134 |
Sources
- IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2024, filed Nov 17, 2025 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202533219349107363
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 36-2356089
- Profile updated Nov 4, 2026
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